PERSUASIVE TEXT

A PERSUASIVE TEXT IS A TEXT THAT IS

CONSTRUCTED TO MAKE YOU DO
SOMETHING.
EXAMPLE:
•AN AD MAY WANT YOU TO BUY
SOMETHING.
•YOU MAY WRITE A LETTER TO PERSUADE
A FRIEND TO GO ON A HOLIDAY WITH
YOU.
EXAMPLES
• SPECIAL OFFER! Buy today!
Would you want to miss this
SPECIAL offer? Phone NOW...
• I really think you need this
holiday. You’ve been working
very hard lately and are so worn
out. Just think how it will be to
lie on the beach in the sunshine.
Triumphant Return Ten Years After
Ten years ago this month, a gigantic
forest park was a sea of flames. The
news media and politicians fanned the
flames even higher. The park was
devastated – devastated!
Night after night, horrific images of
ash and flame flashed across TV
screens. One evening after showing an
enormous expanse of blackened forest,
network news anchor concluded:
 “This is what’s left of the park
tonight.” But guess what? Fire didn’t
destroy the park. Ten years later, we
realize fire had the opposite effect.
Fire rejuvenated the park. Wildlife is
healthy. Tourism is thriving.
Biodiversity is booming. New forests
are rising from the ashes of old ones.
 The recovery is so dramatic. It
deserves a closer look. In April and
May, as fires raged across the park,
business owners fumed. “Our future
is ruined,” they said. Tourism is dead.
But today, tourism is very much alive.
It has set numerous visitation records.
Fire has not repelled tourists; it has
attracted them –-just as it attracts
many species of wildlife.
 Ten years later, the number one
question asked of naturalists remain:
“What are the effects of the fires?”
The answer is simple: The fires were
therapeutic. Not one has concluded
the fires were harmful. That sounds
too good to be true. But it is. The
science is there to prove it.
DISCUSS WITHIN YOUR
GROUP THE FEATURES
OF PERSUASIVE TEXT
USING THE TEXT
GIVEN TO YOUR
GROUP.
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Identify what
feature of persuasive
text is described in
the following.
1. It is used to connect ideas.
2. A question to be posed as a guide
to discuss the idea.
3. This is the use of colorful and
imaginative descriptive words.
4. The use of hyperbole for
emphasis
5. This is the use of action words in
active voice.
6. The use of words that touch emotions.
7. This feature should only contain one
topic sentence.
8. “time after time” is an example of
what feature?
9. These are the pieces of information,
data, facts and figures as evidences to
support.
10.A text that is constructed to make you
do something.